Lives of the British Admirals Containing a New And Accurate Naval History From
Lives of the British Admirals Containing a New And Accurate Naval History From
Campbell John
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Alfo N. 4381, where, in an article from Lifbon, dated October 31. N. S. It is faid, " Twenty fail of Britifli merchant-men are already in this port, and as many more apptar coming in at the bar, all belonging to the fleet under the late convoy of commodore Edwards, they attribute their fafety to the bravery of their convoy, and particularly of the Devonfhire, which main- tained a running fight, againfl five men of war, till the duflc of the evening, by favour of which, moft of the tranfporrs an...d trading fhips made their cfcape. There are already come in about fix hundred of the horfc defigned for the fervice of his Portugucfc majefly. " n > Hiftory of his own times, vol. Ii. P. 488. ' away, i 7 4 NAVAL HISTORY ' away, and failed on, not being purfued, and fo got fafe to Lilbon. " In order to demon ftrate the abfolute injufrice of this fuggef- tion, I fiiall only obferve, that it appears from all the French writers, that the junction of the Dunkirk and Breft fquadron. Happened in the afternoon of the Sth; that the Lifbon fleet failed from Plymouth on the pth, and that the engagement hap- pened on the loth, before noon j fo that any intelligence could be given to the admiralty, of the junction of the French fqua- drons, time enough to have prevented this unlucky accident, is n thing, that, to every candid reader, even at this diftance of time, muft appear perfectly incredible".
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